Have you heard of a community cloud?
Cloud computing including cloud storage and services as products, solutions and services offer different functionality and enable benefits for various types of organizations, entities or individuals.
Public clouds, private clouds and hybrids leveraging public and private continue to evolve in technology, reliability, security and functionality along with the awareness around them.
IT professionals tell me they are interested in clouds however they have concerns.
Cloud concerns range from security, compliance, industry or government regulations, privacy and budgets among others with private, public or hybrid clouds. Peer, cooperative (co-op), consortium or community clouds can be a solution for those that traditional public, private, hybrid, AaaS, SaaS, PaaS or IaaS do not meet their needs.
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In the Cloud Differentiation Means Services
Scott Bils has a post on the «Five Mistakes that Enterprise Cloud Service Providers are Making» over on Leverhawk. Points four and five were particularly interesting because it seems there’s a synergistic opportunity there.
Point number four from Scott:
Omitting SaaS and PaaS: Cloud infrastructure service providers have little incentive to migrate customers to public cloud SaaS offerings such as Salesforce.com or Workday. For many customers, migrating legacy apps to SaaS models will be the right answer. Many enterprise cloud service providers conveniently omit this lever from their transformation story and lose customer credibility as a result.
Piston Closes $8 Million B Round
Piston Cloud Computing, the OpenStack disciple, has gotten an $8 million B round to accelerate OpenStack adoption from Cisco, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures and True Ventures.
The money will be used for product development.
Cisco, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures are new investors.
Piston got a $4.5 million A round in July of 2011 and launched the first commercial OpenStack distribution for building, scaling and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud on bare-metal, converged commodity hardware.
The widgetry also integrates with the open source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service.
Oracle to Buy Networking Firm
Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, more likely to be acquired by Cisco than Oracle, that Oracle is picking up for $2.1 billion in cash or $29.25 a share, a 22% premium over Acme’s Friday close.
Oracle will wind paying $1.7 billion, net of Acme’s roughly $363.4 million in the bank.
Acme reportedly has 1,900 service provider and enterprises customers worldwide including 89 of the world’s top 100 communications companies.
Oracle to Buy Networking Firm
Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, more likely to be acquired by Cisco than Oracle, that Oracle is picking up for $2.1 billion in cash or $29.25 a share, a 22% premium over Acme’s Friday close.
Oracle will wind paying $1.7 billion, net of Acme’s roughly $363.4 million in the bank.
Acme reportedly has 1,900 service provider and enterprises customers worldwide including 89 of the world’s top 100 communications companies.
Elastichosts Goes Global
Elastichosts, a British Amazon wannabe, is setting up in Silicon Valley to be
near potential cloud customers like start-ups and other small to mid-sized
concerns.
It’s already got a data center in Los Angeles. The new San Jose site will give
it redundancy.
It’s also opening new data centers in Hong Kong, Sydney and Amsterdam,
expanding out of London, Toronto and San Antonio, Texas.
Elastichosts Goes Global
Elastichosts, a British Amazon wannabe, is setting up in Silicon Valley to be
near potential cloud customers like start-ups and other small to mid-sized
concerns.
It’s already got a data center in Los Angeles. The new San Jose site will give
it redundancy.
It’s also opening new data centers in Hong Kong, Sydney and Amsterdam,
expanding out of London, Toronto and San Antonio, Texas.
Cloud Computing: Piston Closes $8 Million B Round
Piston Cloud Computing, the OpenStack disciple, has gotten an $8 million B round to accelerate OpenStack adoption from Cisco, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures and True Ventures.
The money will be used for product development.
Cisco, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures are new investors.
Piston got a $4.5 million A round in July of 2011 and launched the first commercial OpenStack distribution for building, scaling and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud on bare-metal, converged commodity hardware.
The widgetry also integrates with the open source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service.
Top Three Best Practices for Migrating to the Cloud
As an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, Bluelock sees a lot of migration of applications. Migration is occurring from physical servers to cloud, from private cloud to public cloud and back to private cloud from public cloud.
Migration can be tricky and a poor migration strategy can be responsible for costly time delays, data loss and other roadblocks on your way to successfully modernizing your infrastructure.
While each scenario is different, I’d like to identify three key best practices that will help your team create a solid, successful plan for migrating your application.
Even before you begin to move your application, there’s a lot of best practice that goes into choosing which application to migrate to the cloud. Regardless of whether you are migrating that app to a public cloud or a private cloud, you should assess the app for data gravity and connectivity of the application.
Key Management and Encryption in VMware-Based Clouds
VMware is without a doubt a major platform for private as well as public cloud deployments. But as in any other cloud-based system, data security, and more specifically cloud encryption and key management are fundamental building blocks.
We have found that external users have many of the same security requirements, whether the cloud is public or private: from an external user’s point of view, the differences between public and private clouds are technical details, and the user requires the same guarantees from the provider.